The free iPhone game Trawler Report - Monster Mayhem, Deadly Dungeon and Lilracerz Micro Rally

We in the UK love the sun, especially when it's not there. But pump up the humidity and trip over the average little islander's invisible temperature tolerance point - generally around the 26-degree mark - and things suddenly turn sour.

"Beautiful sunshine" suddenly becomes "bloody heat" as many scurry back inside, desperately trying to convince themselves that it's raining and miserable outside, and that they're not wasting the three days of summer the UK is blessed with every year.

If you find yourself afflicted with this unfortunate syndrome, why not cleave through your misery with a free iPhone game or two? We have some slices of free gaming that are up to the task. And if you'd rather rock back and forth in a fun-less humid hell, check out this week's crap app.

The best free iPhone games on the App Store

Monster Mayhem Lite
By Chillingo
Type Demo

Any zombie fan who knows his gory gibs from his tomato ketchup special effects also knows that the way to survive the undead apocalypse is to hunker down with a pile of guns big enough to make Rambo's eyes widen.

In Monster Mayhem, you're protecting a gate from near-endless hordes of zombified monsters as they try to get their munch on - with you. They appear from the right of the screen and you have to tap or swipe them into oblivion before they reach the gate of the graveyard.

As you progress, you'll unlock more powerful weapons, which you can then upgrade with coins dropped by fallen enemies. It's the iPhone version of a lowbrow console button-mashing shooter, but it's fun.

Moon Racer
By Max Soderstrom
Type Demo If you've played Jelly Car, you'll already have a good idea of what Moon Racer has in store. Its visuals are pure retro, but the moon gravity physics give it the flavour of a more up-to-date casual game.

Each of the 15 levels, broken down into Easy, Medium, and Hard difficulty levels, is a pure time trial challenge. You can only 'die' by falling off a platform into oblivion, but then the floaty physics make this often perilously easy to do.

Moon Racer isn't a stone cold classic like Jelly Car, but if you've squeezed all the good out of that game already, Moon Racer's worth a download.

Deadly Dungeon
By Reinaldo Pires
Type Full

Deadly Dungeon will only be free for a short time to celebrate the game's launch, so get downloading it quickly if the idea appeals. It's a 3D isometric dungeon crawler that dumps you in the eponymous dungeon to collect treasure chests in between battling the creatures of the dungeon's depths.

Although there are new spells and abilities to learn as you advance, Deadly Dungeon hasn't quite aced a sense of progress yet, but we hope improvements will come with an update. With a bit more structure and tweaking, Deadly Dungeon could become a great little sword jangler.

What it does have are great enemy animations, some shiny 3D visuals, and that all-important 0p price tag.

Pick of the Week Lilracerz Micro Rally
By Mark Fennell
Type Demo If you were to look past the in-game adverts for the Pro version of Lilracerz Rally, you could easily believe that Lilracerz Micro Rally is a full game. It lets you check out a full race tournament, comprising of five tracks, and trick out your car with upgrades.

Lilracerz Micro Rally is a top-down racer, using virtual buttons to act as your acceleration pedal, left/right steering, brake, and nitro. What elevates Lilracerz Micro Rally over its low-budget racer stablemates are its detailed visuals and tight controls.

Oh, and it lets you run people over. What the bystanders think they're doing running over the track mid-race is anyone's guess.

The full Pro version of the game features 17 tracks, but the Micro edition is worth picking up even if you have no intention of moving onto the paid edition.

Crap Apps Box of Shame award Alright
By Uri Nieto
Type Full If playwright Samuel Beckett was alive today, the Alright app could be used as a prop in one of his plays -

Two men sit around the dying embers of a fire fuelled by iPad boxes, the floor of their grey surroundings littered with broken LCD screens and half-eaten root vegetables. One of them starts saying something to the other every five minutes or so, before faltering mid sentence.

The other ignores him, staring intently into the screen of an iPod touch, tapping inanely at the Alright app, piping-out inane "Alright!?" soundbites into the stagnant air of their liquid crystal hell.

After 68 minutes of this discourse, the failed speaker puts his head in his hands and quietly starts weeping. End scene.

There is nothing alright about this app.